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consider yourself shunned On 5/27/06, Simon Wistow <simon@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote: > Or, more succinctly, acroread since I have no idea if this is the same > on Windows. > > I have a PDF. Acroread tries to load and then bitches that it doesn't > have the right font. Not a particularly exotic font - just Times New > Roman. > > I *know* I have TNR installed somewhere because The Gimp and Star Office > and Firefox can use them but we shall ignore that. > > In fact we better ignore that because there's no way to tell Acrobat > "try looking here as well". > > Now, I know the PDF might not render exactly as was designed and since > PDF is a print layout format I can see why that's more important than in > HTML but, you know, just this one time I'm willing to let you substitute > Helvetica or Garamond or Arial because, crazy kook that I am, actually > care about the content rather than the presentation. > > I know, I know. Shun me! I am an aesthetic pariah. > > Will it let me do this. No. It displays square boxes for every character > instead. > > Ghostview, btw, handled it with aplomb. > > >
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